AMD finally seems to have put a realistic assessment of its processors, with its claims of the Phenom II X4 having "massive headroom" with its overclocking potential being validated once again, this time by Team Finland, at a CES overclocking event. Team Finland was able to overclock a Phenom II X4 940 processor at its highest stable clock speed of 6.30 GHz using extreme cooling. Earlier attempts to overclock the chip beyond the 6 GHz mark only yielded in test-beds that were able to POST, boot and display the clock speed using CPU-Z. This attempt however, was a benchmark-stable overclocking feat.

The bench consisted of a Phenom II X4 engineering sample, DFI LANParty Dark 790FXB-M2RS, OCZ DDR2-1066 memory, two Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics cards in CrossfireX and Windows XP. The CPU cooling employed was liquid helium, which dropped the temperature to -242 degrees Celsius. To achieve a clock speed of 6.30 GHz, the processor's vCore was set at 1.84V, its bus speed at 280 MHz and a multiplier of 22.5 was set. The HyperTransport frequency multiplier was set at 8. The Radeon HD 4870 X2 accelerators were set at 800 MHz (core) and 950 MHz (memory). The machine was put through 3DMark05, where it ended with a world-record score of 45,474.

by: btarunrThis feat isn't related to the Core i7 feat. It is to show that Phenom II X4 is bench-stable at 6.30 GHz, though I would've liked to see more benchmarks being run.

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Ive been an AMD fan for years, when AMD had their *downhill* performance on their cpu's past couple years, i was disappointment :shadedshu but I am very happy to see that now AMD can push their CPU's up that far...

AMD FTW! :rockout:

And yes, more tests we gotta see! I am looking forward what will be next

i assume to put less stress on the system. the power draw from 2 HD 4870X2 cards is quite big and its prolly even bigger when overclocked. I would think that they would've attained slightly better results with a single low end card. It actually be nice to see two different tests: the one they did with 2 HD 4870X2s going for the world record and one with a lets say an HD 4670 which would possinly allow them to lessen the power draw and push the Phenom further.

Yep definatly but I suppose it somewhat depends really which "better" you mean, I think it's pretty much general knowledge already that the P2 across the board cannot match an i7 or even a high end Yorkfield but in some things it can match the competition, with at least decent overclocking options with this chip, what you actually have is a decent performing AMD platform that can at least compete in some area's, the platform price for this will be good seeing as some decent supporting motherboards whether it be AM2+ or shortly AM3 will be as little as half the price of top end x58 boards.....all in all AMD is at least back in the real "bang for buck" game and thats a start many of us have been waiting for.